According to witnesses and medical authorities, Israeli forces opened fire on groups of Palestinians waiting for relief, killing around 30 individuals.
The deaths happened close to distribution centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is supported by the United States and Israel. The GHF started delivering food packages in Gaza at the end of May when Israel lifted its 11-week assistance embargo.According to the Gaza health ministry, which is operated by Hamas, at least 32 people were murdered on Saturday, and local sources indicate that another 100 people were injured.The majority of the fatalities occurred during a Palestinian mass gathering in the Teina neighborhood, which is around 3 kilometers (2 miles) from a GHF assistance distribution center located east of Khan Younis.Mahmoud Mokeimar claimed that when he and other groups of individuals, primarily young males, were making their way to the food center, military fired warning shots as the gathering moved forward and then started shooting at the marching mob.”It was a massacre… the occupation opened fire at us indiscriminately,” he stated.According to witnesses and medical authorities, Israeli forces opened fire on groups of Palestinians waiting for relief, killing around 30 individuals.
The deaths happened close to distribution centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is supported by the United States and Israel. The GHF started delivering food packages in Gaza at the end of May when Israel lifted its 11-week assistance embargo.
According to the Gaza health ministry, which is operated by Hamas, at least 32 people were murdered on Saturday, and local sources indicate that another 100 people were injured.
The majority of the fatalities occurred during a Palestinian mass gathering in the Teina neighborhood, which is around 3 kilometers (2 miles) from a GHF assistance distribution center located east of Khan Younis.
Mahmoud Mokeimar claimed that when he and other groups of individuals, primarily young males, were making their way to the food center, military fired warning shots as the gathering moved forward and then started shooting at the marching mob.
“It was a massacre… the occupation opened fire at us indiscriminately,” he stated.
Palestinians who are wounded are sent to Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital.
According to Akram Aker, soldiers used drones and machine guns affixed to tanks.
“They encircled us and started firing directly at us,” he stated.
The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported receiving scores of injured people in addition to 25 corpses. In the Shakoush neighborhood, hundreds of yards north of another GHF center in Rafah, the southernmost city of Gaza, seven other people—including a woman—were slain, according to the hospital. Regarding Saturday’s violence, the army and GHF refrained from commenting right away.
